Wanting to convert from BB, need a bit of help
I'm looking to jump the BB ship and head over to a Droid X. I've been messing with a buddy's for a couple of days now and I'm having a bit of issue with a few things from my blackberry that I really like/need (specifically calendar issues, the family lives and dies by this, so it's got to work) and I'm not getting a satisfactory result yet. I am wondering if I'm just not doing something right. Hoping some converts out there can help me out. I do have a gmail account with google calendar as well as a calendar associated with yahoo and my work account.
1) How do you get calendar reminders to show up visually? Am I doing something wrong, or is it not possible? I set the reminders, but they don't appear to pop up visually.
2) When my wife and I both use our blackberries, she can send me appointments as an email and I could accept them straight into my calendar. If she sends me one on the X, it shows as an attachment in .ics format that I can't seem to figure out how to "import" into the calendar.
3) The recurring calendar events are very limited. Are there any calendar apps out there that work better?
4) The calendar doesn't seem to warn against conflicting appointments or meetings. Fixable?
5) Is color coding events possible on google calendar?
6) I'm having a hard time inviting attendees to meetings/appointments. What am I doing wrong here?
I love the web browsing, forum trolling, non truncated email, and properly rendered HTML email, and multimedia performance the droid offers. The Blackberry browser feels like using DOS compared to the X, but this calendar is going to be a deal breaker if I can't get it to work. I simply can't forfeit it for the other stuff, it keeps my wife and I from dropping the ball in our personal and professional lives.
My fear is the calendar is a weak point of the droid X and if I upgrade to it in November and it fails to function adequately, the the blackberries I have to go back to within 30 days are truly not much better than the storm 1 I have now.
Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.
I'm looking to jump the BB ship and head over to a Droid X. I've been messing with a buddy's for a couple of days now and I'm having a bit of issue with a few things from my blackberry that I really like/need (specifically calendar issues, the family lives and dies by this, so it's got to work) and I'm not getting a satisfactory result yet. I am wondering if I'm just not doing something right. Hoping some converts out there can help me out. I do have a gmail account with google calendar as well as a calendar associated with yahoo and my work account.
1) How do you get calendar reminders to show up visually? Am I doing something wrong, or is it not possible? I set the reminders, but they don't appear to pop up visually.
2) When my wife and I both use our blackberries, she can send me appointments as an email and I could accept them straight into my calendar. If she sends me one on the X, it shows as an attachment in .ics format that I can't seem to figure out how to "import" into the calendar.
3) The recurring calendar events are very limited. Are there any calendar apps out there that work better?
4) The calendar doesn't seem to warn against conflicting appointments or meetings. Fixable?
5) Is color coding events possible on google calendar?
6) I'm having a hard time inviting attendees to meetings/appointments. What am I doing wrong here?
I love the web browsing, forum trolling, non truncated email, and properly rendered HTML email, and multimedia performance the droid offers. The Blackberry browser feels like using DOS compared to the X, but this calendar is going to be a deal breaker if I can't get it to work. I simply can't forfeit it for the other stuff, it keeps my wife and I from dropping the ball in our personal and professional lives.
My fear is the calendar is a weak point of the droid X and if I upgrade to it in November and it fails to function adequately, the the blackberries I have to go back to within 30 days are truly not much better than the storm 1 I have now.
Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.
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